🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

2023.5.5.

🔹Question : I wonder why the Buddha didn't return to secular or home life after attaining enlightenment, but continued to live as a homeless and build his monastic order. Couldn't he have tried to become a good king, like honorable, generous, and wise one who really watch out for his people? Was it because he knew that it would be so hard or impossible for a king to be free just like a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven? Or did he renounce the worldly pleasure: money, fame, power, comforts and etc. because those are based on somebody else's pain? Jesus said we cannot serve two masters: God and money. I wonder if the Buddha thought the same. I'm asking this question because, unlike the Buddha or Jesus's teaching, I was taught to achieve both: success and happiness. I understand that there is no end to the desire. However, I'm not sure if I can be happy being a homeless either. So, here are my questions. Is worldly success and being happy and free mutually exclusive? And, given somebody like the Buddha had to leave home and abandon everything to attain enlightenment, am I being so greedy wanting to be happy and free without giving up any worldly possessions? What do I really have to do if I really want to wake up and not just try to avoid a nightmare? Thank you.

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Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to " The Balance Between Our Own

🔹Question : I’m not sure if you are suggesting that appiness is sort of the state that we should ideally be seeking. But if it is, I think to the people that I know who are the happiest and they are actually the people that are most selfish. And I observe that they’re very happy because they spend, you know, all of our time and energy are limited. And they spend their time and energy on their own goals and their own interests. And they don’t really help others. And that doesn’t seem to be the ideal way of living. The ideal way of living seems to be some balance between seeking your own happiness and also seeking others’ happiness. On the other end of the spectrum, I see other people who are very selfless and help a lot of people selflessly. But actually because ey’re so neglectful their own needs they are unhappy. So it seems like we need some sort of balance, right? How would you

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Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to "Worldly Life Versus InwardLife Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Google (Nov. 10, 2014)

🔹Question : In your first answer that was a really beautiful. You talked about the importance of the how instead of the what. And I was wondering as people try to go down this path and look more inwards, how do you advise them in terms of spending their time inwards. Maybe people come to you for the monastic tradition. How do you advise people if the career or the worldly life versus more of an inward life? Do you have any advice?

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My experience made me very cynical about even what humans are and what we deserve. Maybe it's wrong for me to want to love people or want people to care about each other.

I was wondering what's your take on it, given that you are

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